Try an Azure Site Recovery setup for DR needs

For this Azure Site Recovery setup tutorial, we’ll cover how to configure VMs for site-to-site replication between regions via the portal.azure.com link.

As with most Azure tools, the Disaster Recovery menu is on the left-hand side with the other Azure services. Under this menu is the Recovery Service vault option. Create one When you have entered all your specifications, click Create to build the vault. The next step is to choose the purpose for the vault. The choice is either for backup or DR.

Next, add the VMs. To start, from the vault choices select Site Recovery.

From the on-premises option, click Replicate Application to open a wizard to add VMs. Next, click Review + Start replication to start the creation and replication process, which can take several minutes. For ease of access and experimentation purposes, I suggest pinning it to your dashboard. Opening the vault provides a health overview of the site and clicking on each item shows details about the replication status as shown in Figure 2.

This completes the creation of a group with two protected VMs. Every VM added to that resource group automatically becomes a protected member of the vault. By default, the DR failover is set to a maximum duration of 24 hours. After the initial configuration, you can adjust the failover duration and snapshot frequency from the Site Recovery Policy – Retention policies page.

The last step is to create a recovery plan. From the vault, select Create recovery plan and then + Recovery plan and give it a name as shown in Figure 3 with our example called MyApplicationRecoveryPlan. You choose the source from either the on-premises location or Azure, and the Azure target.

When complete, opening the plan to verify it works properly This tutorial covers some of the basic functionality of Azure Site Recovery. For more granular control, there are many more options available to provide advanced functionality.